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Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork

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465 points impish9208 | 4 comments | 11 Jan 25 18:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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blackeyeblitzar ◴[11 Jan 25 19:51 UTC] No.42668473[source]▶
I haven’t followed this whole controversy closely but I don’t see a problem with this personally. It’s aggressive but this person spent most of their life building Wordpress to what it is, giving it dedicated focus for a couple decades. Why should WPEngine or others get to suck up the money from that?
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jrhey ◴[11 Jan 25 21:43 UTC] No.42669150[source]▶
This just in, the creator of UNIX wants to deactivate your MacBook. Just yours. Sorry, hope you understand.
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dylan604 ◴[11 Jan 25 23:56 UTC] No.42669964[source]▶
Was UNIX open source?
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graemep ◴[12 Jan 25 04:01 UTC] No.42671185[source]▶
No, but XNU (Apple's OS kenel) is based BSD which is open source. In fact XNU itself is open source even though its BSD licenced so does not have to be. https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu

There even seems to be an open source variant of the OS https://www.puredarwin.org/

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1. dylan604 ◴[12 Jan 25 04:23 UTC] No.42671262[source]▶
And that has to do with the price of tea in China how?
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2. graemep ◴[12 Jan 25 08:40 UTC] No.42672144[source]▶
You asked whether Unix was open source in the context of a macbook. The Unix derivative used on a Macbook is, indeed, open source.
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3. dylan604 ◴[12 Jan 25 14:55 UTC] No.42673966[source]▶
No, I asked if Unix was open source. The macOS kernel is a BSD derivative. BSD != Unix. If the comment was to hold true, they should have said BSD wants your MacBook.
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4. graemep ◴[13 Jan 25 07:54 UTC] No.42681112{3}[source]▶
> The macOS kernel is a BSD derivative. BSD != Unix.

BSD is derived from Unix source, so it is Unix. Most BSDs cannot be distributed using the Unix name because of lack of trademark permission. However, MacOS is an officially certified Unix: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/